Didit Robillo van der Linden's works features an array of still life paintings derived from the artist’s collections of artifacts and folk art crafts from her numerous travels to other countries.

However, unlike the traditional way of presenting still life objects (carefully composed on figurative backgrounds, usually set atop tables and fabric, for instance), Robillo detaches these objects from their familiar background of her home and represents them in the ephemeral, floating spaces of memory: setting them in unfamiliar, inchoate backgrounds created to articulate the artist’s mood at the time of the work’s production. Robillo’s style also varies between physical intensity and quiet contemplation.

Robillo finished her art studies at the University of Santo Tomas , Manila . She started exhibiting her paintings in 1993, after two years of immersing herself in the culture of Dhaka , Bangladesh , and painting figurative representations of the subcontinent’s toiling yet dignified Bengali workers in oil on canvas.

Since then she has held solo, two-woman and group exhibitions in the Netherlands , New York , Singapore , and Davao City and Manila , in the Philippines . Robillo alternates between the various genres of representational imagery: from still life paintings to landscapes and figures. Robillo currently resides in Paranaque City with her husband and two children.